The Anti-Dystopians

Is social media really destroying democracy? Should Facebook be considered a public utility? How does cryptocurrency affect state sovereignty? And what exactly is surveillance capitalism? For all your political questions about tech, this is The Anti-Dystopians.


The Anti-Dystopians is hosted and produced by Alina Utrata. All episodes are freely available, wherever you get your podcasts. Follow the show on Twitter @AntiDystopians.


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‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity

‘Corporations are Robots’: David Runciman on AI, states and the first singularity

David Runciman is a professor of Politics at Cambridge University and the host of the critically acclaimed podcast Talking Politics. In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, he speaks to Alina Utrata a...

5 Huhti 202254min

The Return of (Amazon) Ring

The Return of (Amazon) Ring

Alina Utrata speaks with Lauren Bridges, a PhD candidate at the the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania who studies big data infrastructures and surveillance regimes. ...

21 Helmi 202253min

The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons

The Feminine Meme: Geeks, memes, incels and toxic masculinity at tech hackathons

Alina Utrata talks to Dr Siân Brooke, a Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and an associate at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Insti...

14 Helmi 202258min

The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves

The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves

In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant Simlai, a conservation researcher studying the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India, who just received his PhD in the Departmen...

6 Helmi 202248min

Who is Amazon?

Who is Amazon?

In this episode of the Anti-Dystopians, Rowena Squires, an ancient historian, asks Alina Utrata everything you ever wanted to know about Amazon. How did Amazon go from online bookstore to commercial e...

30 Tammi 202255min

Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression

Grab ‘em by the data: gender, technology and systems of oppression

On this week’s episode, Alina Utrata talks to Stefanie Felsberger, a PhD in Gender Studies at Cambridge University, and Muskan Shafat, an MS in Data and Society at the London School of Economics, abou...

22 Tammi 202252min

(Tech) Company Rule

(Tech) Company Rule

Alina Utrata talks to Dr Maha Atal, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow who studies the political economy of corporate power and was previously an award-winning journalist reporting on the tech in...

13 Joulu 202156min

Human rights and internet infrastructure 

Human rights and internet infrastructure 

Alina Utrata talks to Dr Corinne Cath-Speth, a recent graduate from the doctoral program at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) and a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Internet infrast...

29 Marras 202141min

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